DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 317 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
བདུད་ཀྱི་ཞལ་སྒྱུར་ཁྲམ་ཕྱིས་ཞགས་གཅོད་བཞུགས་སོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | bDud kyi zhal sgyur khram phyis zhags gcod bzhugs so// |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Ritual for the repulsion and destruction of demons. |
| 5. Number of folios | 3 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | |
| 7. Translation of title | Repulsion of demons and cutting them on the tally-board. |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | g.yog gsum pas mdos ni/ ma mo kun ’dus kyi rgyud las/ slob dpon chen po bsdus nas/ stag ’chal gsang ba’i brag la gter du sbas/ las can dbang bdag gis gter nas bton/ sems can ’gro la phan phyir yi ger bkod/ bkra shis so// shu bhȧ/ 1 zhus so// |
| 9. Translation of colophon | This g.yog gsum pa’i mdos ritual is from an abridgement of the tantra of the assembly of the ma mo goddesses. It was concealed as treasure at the secret rock of sTag ’chal, and revealed by me, who am endowed with good karma, and I wrote it down to benefit all living beings. Blessings, virtue and good fortune. |
| 10. General remarks | Incomplete |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 7 × 35.5 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 1 layer |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.11–0.13 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
| 22. RTI | |
| 23. GCMS |
